Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-03
GRACE FREE TO ALL.
DR.. TALhAGE'S TABERNACLE DISCOURSE
PREACHED LAST SUNDAY.
WhOsOevr Will May Come and Partaks Of Gods
Saving Gracs-ThOugh Rich, He Became
Poor for Our Sakss-Chri1's
Great Love for Man.
Special TdleSram to the Register.

the bIoohIyh laDernacle. An adjoining
lecture room has been built so that during
the week it is used by itself, but on Sab
bath it is thrown into the main auditor
ium and filled by those sitting or standing.
Notwithstanding the enlargement the
crowds that 60 away unable to get inside
the building are greater this fall than ever
before. To-day the pastor explained ap-
propriate passages Of Scripture. Professor
Brown rendered upon the organ the First
Sonata in d Minor, Ritter. The text of
the sermon was from II Corinthians, Ch.
viii, v. g.: "Ye know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was
rich, yet for your sakes He became poor"
DR.. Talmage said:
That all the worlds which on cold
winters night makes the heavens one
great glitter are inhabitantless is an alb
surdity. Philosophers tell us that many
of these worlds are too bot or too cold or
too rarefed of atmosphere for residence.
But, if not fit for human abode, they may
be fit for beings different from and super
ior TO ourselves. We are told that the
world of Jupiter is changing until it is al
most tit for creatures like the human race,
and that Mars would do for the human
family with a little change in the struc-
ture of the respiratory organs. But that
there is great world swung somewhere,
vast beyond imagination, and that it is the
headquarters of the universe, and the me-
trOpolis Of immensity, and has a pOpula
ton in numbers vast beyond all statistics,
and appointments of splendor beyond the
capacity OF canvas,
OR POEM, OR ANGEL
to describe, is Us certain as the Bible is
authentic. Perhaps some of the astrono-
mers with their big telescopes have al
ready caught glimpse of it, not knowing
what it is Wespcll it with six letters and
pronounce it Heaven.
That is where Prince Jesus lived nine
teen centuries ago. He was the Kings
son. 1t was the old homestead of etern-
ity, and all his castles were rs old as God.
Not frost had ever chilled the air. Not
tear had ever rolled down the cheek of
one OF its inhabitants. There had never
been in it headache. There had not
been funeral in the memory of the Oldest
inhabitant There had never in all the
land been woven a black veil, for there
had never been anything TO mourn over
The passage of millions of years had not
wrinkled or crippled or bedimmed any of
it's citizens, All the people there were in
state of eternal adolescence. What floral
and pOmOnic richness! Gardens Of
perpetual bloom and orchards in
unendiDg fruitage. Had some spirit from
another world entered and asked, what is
sin? what is bereavement? what is sorrow?
what is death? the brightest of intelli-
gences would have failed to give defini-
tiOn, though to study the question there
were silence in Heaven for half an hour
The Prince OF whom ! speak had honors
emolumentS acclamations, such as no 9th
er prince, celestial or terrestrial, ever en-
iOyed. As He passed the street, the in
habitants took OIL from their brows gar
lands OF white lilies and threw them in
the way. He never entered any of the
temples without all the worshippers rising
professions of the high days lie was the one
who evoked the lOudeSt welcome. Some
times on foot, walking in loving talk with
the humblest of the land, but at other
times He took chariot, and among the
twenty thousand that David spoke of His
was the
sWIFTEsT AND MOST FLAMING;
-. ., Jol, lo,,r;knI Him To tnnly a
white palfrcy with that prance of foot, and
arch OF neck, and roll of name, and CLEAN
of eye as is only dimly suggested in the
Apocalypse. He WAS not hike other princes,
waiting for the Father TO die and then take
the throne When "a few years ago an ar
tist in Germany made a picture for the
Royal Gallery representing Emperor Will
liam on the throne and the Crown Prince
as having one foot on the step of the
throne Emperor William ordered the pic
ture changed and said: LET the prince
keep his foot off the throne till leave it. "
Already enthroned was the heavenly
prince side by side with the Father. What
circle of dOminiOn What myrmid0ns OF
admirers! What an unending round OF
glories! All the towers chimed the Princes
praises. Of the inhabitants, from the
centre of the city, on over the hills and
clear down to the beach against which the
ocean of immensity rolls its billOws, the
Prince was the acknowledged fivorite.
No wonder my text says that He was
rich"
Set all the diamonds Of the earth in one
sceptre, build all the palaces OF the earth
in one Alhambra, gather all the pearls OF
the sea in one diadem, put all the values
of the earth in one coin, the aggregate
would not express his affiuence. Yes,
Paul was right. Solomon had in gold
six hundred and eighty million pounds
and in silver one billion twenty-nlne mil
lion three hundred and seventy seven
pounds sterling. But greater than Solo
mon is here. Not the millionaire, hut the
ouadrilhonaire Of heaven. To describe his
celestial surroundings the Bible uses all
colors, gathering them in rainbow over the
throne and setting them as agate in the
temple window, and hOisting twelve of
them into wall from striped jasper at the
base to transparent.
AMETHYST IN THE CAPSTONE,
while between are green of emerald, and
snow of pearl, and blue of sapphire, and
yellow of topaz, gray of chrysoprasus, and
flame of iacinth. All the loyeliness OF land
scape in foliage, and river, and rill, and
all enohantmeut aquamarine, the sea of
glass mingled with fire as when the sun
sinks in the Mediterranean. All the thrill
of music, instrumental and vocal, harps,
trumpets, doxologies. There stood the
Prince, surrounded by those who had un-
der their wings the velocity of millions Of
miles in a second, rich in love, rich in ado
ration, rich in power, rich in worship, rich
in holiness, rich in God.
But one day there was a big disaster in
department Of Gods universe. A race
fallen! A world in ruins! Our planet the
scene Of the catastrophe! A globe swing
ing out into darkness, with mountains,
and seas, and islands; an awful centrifu-
gal Of sin seeming to overpower the beauti
full centripetal of righteousness, and
from it groan reached heaven.
Such a sound had never been
heard there. Plenty Of sweet Sounds,
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